@copim @openbookcollect @Thoth_metadata
[...] pit presses as well as other stakeholders in open publishing against one another in the pursuit of financial profit.
Both initiatives have been set up from the get-go as non-profits to ensure that they cannot be bought out by commercial players. More importantly, our governance models have been modelled in such a way that the communities we serve have an active say in the direction of our initiatives. For example, the Open Book Collective's governance is led by its Board of Stewards, which brings together its three main constituent groups of libraries, infrastructure providers, and publishers (many of them Born OA / #DiamondOA). For Thoth, we've recently published our first self-assessment against POSI, the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructures, which I'm sharing below.
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The Emerald acquisition of Wiley is yet another stark reminder of what really counts for those large publisher conglomerates: profits above everything else.
We've all read this playbook again and again, seen this movie many times.
To be clear, this is not how publishing needs to be. In the @copim community, we've worked hard to first conceptualise and then establish different way of thinking about publishing as a truly community-led non-profit #DiamondOA ecosystem.
For #OAbook publishing, which is particularly relevant to the Humanities and Social Sciences, new non-profit infrastructures such as @openbookcollect and @Thoth_metadata have been established over the past couple of years, which are strongly dedicated to their communities' needs, and guided by the principle of Scaling Small, which prioritises open collaboration and knowledge-sharing over competitive practices that [...]
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Lexsociété Review publishes the proceedings of the conference on the professional ethics of private security activities, held at Université Paris Cité on 28 January 2026 under the scientific direction of Xavier Latour, Sylvie Jouniot, and Nicolas Le Saux.
The seven contributions address two complementary themes: the scope of professional ethics in private security and the conditions for its implementation.
All articles are in french.
Link : https://epi-revel.univ-cotedazur.fr/collections/show/2049
What if global #OpenScience cost a fraction of one nation's journal subscriptions? 🤯
SCOSS reveals a stark contrast: €6M feeds 12 vital global #DiamondOA infrastructures, while a single country can spend over €100M on paywalls and APCs.
It’s time to shift from buying access to investing in a shared, equitable future for research. 🌍
Read the full story: https://scoss.org/the-6-vs-100-million-oa-question/
ALMASI is organizing its 2nd discussion series on scholar-led publishing.
From Preprints to Publication: How Community-Driven Models Are Reshaping Scholarly Communication
🕓 Thursday 11ᵗʰ June 2026 at 16:30 CEST
📝 Discover the program: u2l.fr/th3dc8
👉 Register to attend: u2l.fr/nfd3mx
#scholarled #publishing #ALMASI #DiamondOA #preprint #scholarlycommunication
📣 New this month on Epi-Revel, the diamond open-access platform of Université Côte d'Azur: issue 23 of the journal Paix et sécurité européenne et internationale (PSEI).
This issue features several reports on disarmament, the Iranian nuclear dossier, and UN peacekeeping operations, as well as two studies on American projects concerning Greenland and the economics of rearmament in Europe.
All articles are in french.
#diamondOA #security #international #openscience #UniCA #DiBSO
Marc Robinson-Rechavi
Toby Steiner
Science Ouverte UniCA
SPARC Europe
DOAJ
Lambert Heller
KOALA